Susanna August 28-31, 2021 Strasbourg

Strasbourg is so full of life! A city of students, a city of art popping up when one least expects it, a city of old and new and beautiful sights. We had a nice few days of downtime where we got work done and prepped for the next leg.
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We also got the first dose of our travel vaccines for Asia at the Travel Clinic of the university. We tried to do this in the USA but it was not easy and it was cost prohibitive. In the USA, for instance, when we finally got an appointment, we were to each pay for a $250 consultation–so $1000 just to hear what we already knew from researching the CDC website ourselves, plus the vaccines, some of which would not be covered by insurance. Seriously? This just didn’t quite make sense, so we opted out of this storyline and decided to find an alternative. And we did. We had our first doses in the travel clinic of the University of Strasbourg. Easy to contact the clinic and amazing service, for a fraction of the cost. We are relieved and grateful that this could be done there. Thank you to Dr. H., Dr. B., and all staff for the excellent service! 

The last day, we sent a package of extra stuff home (Thank you for receiving it, Ahlam!). Between the package and the things we discarded or donated along the way, our load began to feel more manageable.  Every single gram of weight counts :).